The thing is, this is one use of DRM that I think I might be able to live with: when you're renting content.
the problem with DRM is that it turns everything into rented content. Your music, your movies, your video games, and soon to be your applications and your OS. Everybody wants to switch over to a pay per use plan because that's how they figure they'd make the most money.
XBox Live isn't a civil rights arena. Why should I know or care if anyone on XBL is gay or straight or black or white or republican or democrat or christian or atheist? Just play the game and leave politics and your personal life out of it.
The nature of most people on Slashdot appears to be to figure out a way that a certain product could be used badly, assume that that is the only way it could be used, and then post a whole lot of comments to that effect.
History has shown us that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Government research on technology that can be used to enhance life is usually used first to destroy it - the atomic bomb being a good example. Other times, good technology is used for just general bad purpose when it comes into contact with the wrong hands from RFID to CCTV to AutoTune. Society has a way of perverting everything. It just so happens that Slashdotters are more aware of this fact than the general public and it has made Slashdotters, who are generally some of the most tech savvy population on the internet, into some of the most disillusioned, skeptical, and paranoid crusaders against the same technology. Perhaps this pill can erase our bad memories of how the technology we love is perverted more and more every day and then we won't be afraid to welcome this pill with open arms!
Why do people lose their critical reasoning ability so easily?
I don't know, but you seem to have done it fairly readily. Comparing the Pirate Bay to a phone book is one of the most nonsensical arguments I've ever heard about the topic. A phone book is a list of all the registered numbers in the phone company's database. There is no agenda behind publishing this list. The Pirate Bay is not a database of every torrent published on the internet. The equivalent of that would be Google. The Pirate Bay is made with the explicit agenda that copyright in any form is wrong, and they will do whatever it is in their power to stop it. In the case of the Pirate Bay, it's publishing links so that users can infringe on copyrights. They don't host the infringing material, they just link to it, but it's the most obvious thing in the world to see that The Pirate Bay is not equivalent to a phone book. In order to even make your analogy slightly accurate, you would have to publish a phone book where only drug dealers can list their phone number.
You can't come back. When you're making $800 a month, see how long it takes you to save $1000 for a plane ticket back to the US, and then $2400 for an apartment security deposit and first month's rent, and not including all the moving fees you're incurring in the process. This is why there isn't a flood of people coming from poorer countries by the millions. Because it's HARD.
But, I just feel we have to be worth it and IBM will have no problems hiring Americans since they're worth every penny they pay.
Why is WalMart the biggest retailer in the US? Because people don't care about good quality brands. They want cheap and they want now. Outsourcing is the WalMart mentality applied to business. They don't want top of the line engineers that are worth every penny. They want an engineer who could string together a few lines of code for a fraction of the cost because, as the American people shopping at WalMart, they'll settle for "good enough." That's great that you feel your worth every penny for the excellent skilled job you do. There are less companies, though, that are looking for a man of your talents.
I'm surprised with all this hating on the very idea of a sequel, without even mentioning that the writer wrote Eagle Eye - the biggest horse shit of a sci-fi movie made in the last decade.
yeah, the OP was harsh, but it's better to have a person who will tell it like it is instead of just let a company go on ahead with drastic changes and not be aware of the consequences. There will be whining, and there will be people who will not want to change their decade old skill sets, and there are people who are luddites when it comes to any new software. It's good to know that upfront so the management can make a more informed decision.
I think the trust Google is being shown is a result of how they treat their applications and services, as well as how they do business. They're not just a competitor to MS and that's why people rally behind them. They give away most of their services for free and on top of it, the services are some of the best on the web. They give a lot of code to the open source movement and promote open source contributions through their Summer of Code program. Yes, they are a corporation and are motivated by profit, but so are most companies that don't do nearly as much as Google does for their customers and for software. Have they made bad decisions? Sure, everyone has and in those times there should be an outcry. But their good decisions should be lauded as well.
It's useful if you consider sending just a copy of the Sports Almanac back to a past you so that past you could bet on all the winning teams in the future.
As others, as well as the article pointed out - people suffering from stress or anxiety are more likely to drink coffee so the effects of stress and anxiety cannot be reasonably linked to drinking coffee if drinking coffee is just another symptom, along with the hallucinations. That's why correlation does not mean causation in this study. It's also common sense. It'll take more then a single study to prove that 3 cups of coffee cause hallucinations, seeing as how most people here probably drink 3 cups or more and have never had a hallucination or even close to it. Usually, the statistics that we've had close experience to are usually usurped by our own experiences. This is even why you see too many people ignoring statistics if they're offensive. Religious people, for instance, probably won't believe that their religion causes violent crime because they personally haven't experienced violent crime among their religious friends and colleagues, so they wouldn't believe the statistics.
Wow. You're modded up as funny but your answers to those joke questions are pretty insightful. Too bad I don't have mod points. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to move my sock drawer.
Everything you said you disliked in Fallout 3 is what I liked about it. The fact that you have to repair your guns and worry about how much you were carrying added to the immersion. I loved that the only equipment you got was from dead bodies and most of it was in poor condition until you fixed it. That's how I would imagine living in a post apocalyptic world is. I liked that you couldn't hoard every weapon you found and had to make difficult choices on what to keep or throw away because it was too heavy. I especially like the side missions, as the game is about exploration and immersion. You didn't like the main story but you're complaining about the other 75% of the game/stories? Each one had a sense of history. The world was alive, and it's all those things you disliked that made it so. Otherwise, it's just a Gears of War knockoff.
Hypothetical question. If some artsy filmmaker made a low budget Watchmen movie that was really low budget, Im talking about uses visual symbolism instead of special effects, less than half a million budget, etc etc, that was absolutely in keeping with the spirit and meaning of the source work would you go watch it? Would you watch it over a Hollywooded version that was visually cool?
The important question is not whether it keeps the spirit and meaning of the source work, but whether it's a good movie or not. Converting any source work to another medium is difficult because you have to keep the spirit of the original, but still maintain the best qualities of the medium you're transporting it to. Keeping the spirit and meaning of the original will already ruin a movie adaptation because the original source material is more than a 2 hour movie will provide. This means it will probably be upwards of a 6 hour movie and nobody would watch that.
Another thing about your hypothetical question is whether less than half a mil is enough to make such a movie and keep the spirit. The Watchmen was made by 2 very talented people, and that's about how many it takes to make a great graphic novel. To put in the same amount of production value that the graphic novel had into the movie would be a large undertaking. You need actors, a director, producer, camera crew, etc. Something like Watchmen made for less than half a million will look like an Ed Wood film. Terrible acting, terrible set design, terrible costumes, etc. How can a movie like that ever do the original Watchmen justice - even if the script is the best Watchmen script ever written? If you're making that movie, you're throwing away the best parts of filmmaking so why make it?
That's not a very good analogy because with the Picasso, there's only 1 in the world. There is no limit to how many XBox games or iPhone apps there could be in the world. There are iPhone games with PC equivalents where the PC app is much more expensive even if it has the same functionality. Was it any more difficult to make the PC equivalent then the iPhone app? No, but the value of iPhone games are seen as worth a couple bucks whereas the PC games are over $10.
After seeing indie games on bittorrent that cost 5 bucks if purchased I don't think your reasoning holds through. Some people will not purchase at any price, and will pirate it. Price is completely subjective and rarely dictates the quality of the product,, but the perception of quality. The iPhone App Store is a great representation of this. There are a lot of programs that are free, so people start to get the impression that all apps should be free. There are useful apps for $1 that some reviewers consider overpriced. You can't find an app on the app store, no matter the price, that some people will say is overpriced, when these are the same people who will go and buy a $60 game for their XBox, play it for less time than the iPhone app's usefulness, and not think anything of it. If games drop in price to, say, $20. People will find any higher variation of that price "overpriced" as their perception of the price of games now will be worth $20 instead of the $60 they're paying now.
Hmm. And Sigourney Weaver played the part of Gwen DeMarco in Galaxy Quest - a person who's job it was to repeat what the computer was saying.
...and Galaxy Quest also costars Sam Rockwell who stars alongside none other than Kevin Bacon. I win!! Oh wait... We were playing 6 Degrees To Kevin Bacon right?
I've never even heard of X3:Reunion or X3:Terran Conflict. If their DRM was so great, how did their sales go? Once they removed the DRM, you say it became piracy galore - there's a good argument that those pirates weren't going to buy the game to begin with, since they had ample opportunity to do so, and it was inconvenient/impossible for them to get the pirated version in the first place. Another quest is that since many more pirates played the first game once the DRM was gone, how did it affect sales of the second game?
How are companies buying into the DRM thing when every single DRM scheme has been cracked within days of release? Prince of Persia will probably be pirated at exactly the same rate as any other game, since every other game is on the torrent sites, DRM or not.
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the problem with DRM is that it turns everything into rented content. Your music, your movies, your video games, and soon to be your applications and your OS. Everybody wants to switch over to a pay per use plan because that's how they figure they'd make the most money.
XBox Live isn't a civil rights arena. Why should I know or care if anyone on XBL is gay or straight or black or white or republican or democrat or christian or atheist? Just play the game and leave politics and your personal life out of it.
Maybe it would be more accurate to label them as a "do not fire"
History has shown us that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Government research on technology that can be used to enhance life is usually used first to destroy it - the atomic bomb being a good example. Other times, good technology is used for just general bad purpose when it comes into contact with the wrong hands from RFID to CCTV to AutoTune. Society has a way of perverting everything. It just so happens that Slashdotters are more aware of this fact than the general public and it has made Slashdotters, who are generally some of the most tech savvy population on the internet, into some of the most disillusioned, skeptical, and paranoid crusaders against the same technology. Perhaps this pill can erase our bad memories of how the technology we love is perverted more and more every day and then we won't be afraid to welcome this pill with open arms!
I don't know, but you seem to have done it fairly readily. Comparing the Pirate Bay to a phone book is one of the most nonsensical arguments I've ever heard about the topic. A phone book is a list of all the registered numbers in the phone company's database. There is no agenda behind publishing this list. The Pirate Bay is not a database of every torrent published on the internet. The equivalent of that would be Google. The Pirate Bay is made with the explicit agenda that copyright in any form is wrong, and they will do whatever it is in their power to stop it. In the case of the Pirate Bay, it's publishing links so that users can infringe on copyrights. They don't host the infringing material, they just link to it, but it's the most obvious thing in the world to see that The Pirate Bay is not equivalent to a phone book. In order to even make your analogy slightly accurate, you would have to publish a phone book where only drug dealers can list their phone number.
He did, but it wasn't vegan.
You can't come back. When you're making $800 a month, see how long it takes you to save $1000 for a plane ticket back to the US, and then $2400 for an apartment security deposit and first month's rent, and not including all the moving fees you're incurring in the process. This is why there isn't a flood of people coming from poorer countries by the millions. Because it's HARD.
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How very appropriate.
But, I just feel we have to be worth it and IBM will have no problems hiring Americans since they're worth every penny they pay.
Why is WalMart the biggest retailer in the US? Because people don't care about good quality brands. They want cheap and they want now. Outsourcing is the WalMart mentality applied to business. They don't want top of the line engineers that are worth every penny. They want an engineer who could string together a few lines of code for a fraction of the cost because, as the American people shopping at WalMart, they'll settle for "good enough." That's great that you feel your worth every penny for the excellent skilled job you do. There are less companies, though, that are looking for a man of your talents.
I'm surprised with all this hating on the very idea of a sequel, without even mentioning that the writer wrote Eagle Eye - the biggest horse shit of a sci-fi movie made in the last decade.
yeah, the OP was harsh, but it's better to have a person who will tell it like it is instead of just let a company go on ahead with drastic changes and not be aware of the consequences. There will be whining, and there will be people who will not want to change their decade old skill sets, and there are people who are luddites when it comes to any new software. It's good to know that upfront so the management can make a more informed decision.
I think the trust Google is being shown is a result of how they treat their applications and services, as well as how they do business. They're not just a competitor to MS and that's why people rally behind them. They give away most of their services for free and on top of it, the services are some of the best on the web. They give a lot of code to the open source movement and promote open source contributions through their Summer of Code program. Yes, they are a corporation and are motivated by profit, but so are most companies that don't do nearly as much as Google does for their customers and for software. Have they made bad decisions? Sure, everyone has and in those times there should be an outcry. But their good decisions should be lauded as well.
It's useful if you consider sending just a copy of the Sports Almanac back to a past you so that past you could bet on all the winning teams in the future.
So the lesson is never drink coffee and spin a web right after. Got it.
As others, as well as the article pointed out - people suffering from stress or anxiety are more likely to drink coffee so the effects of stress and anxiety cannot be reasonably linked to drinking coffee if drinking coffee is just another symptom, along with the hallucinations. That's why correlation does not mean causation in this study. It's also common sense. It'll take more then a single study to prove that 3 cups of coffee cause hallucinations, seeing as how most people here probably drink 3 cups or more and have never had a hallucination or even close to it. Usually, the statistics that we've had close experience to are usually usurped by our own experiences. This is even why you see too many people ignoring statistics if they're offensive. Religious people, for instance, probably won't believe that their religion causes violent crime because they personally haven't experienced violent crime among their religious friends and colleagues, so they wouldn't believe the statistics.
Wow. You're modded up as funny but your answers to those joke questions are pretty insightful. Too bad I don't have mod points. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to move my sock drawer.
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Everything you said you disliked in Fallout 3 is what I liked about it. The fact that you have to repair your guns and worry about how much you were carrying added to the immersion. I loved that the only equipment you got was from dead bodies and most of it was in poor condition until you fixed it. That's how I would imagine living in a post apocalyptic world is. I liked that you couldn't hoard every weapon you found and had to make difficult choices on what to keep or throw away because it was too heavy. I especially like the side missions, as the game is about exploration and immersion. You didn't like the main story but you're complaining about the other 75% of the game/stories? Each one had a sense of history. The world was alive, and it's all those things you disliked that made it so. Otherwise, it's just a Gears of War knockoff.
The important question is not whether it keeps the spirit and meaning of the source work, but whether it's a good movie or not. Converting any source work to another medium is difficult because you have to keep the spirit of the original, but still maintain the best qualities of the medium you're transporting it to. Keeping the spirit and meaning of the original will already ruin a movie adaptation because the original source material is more than a 2 hour movie will provide. This means it will probably be upwards of a 6 hour movie and nobody would watch that.
Another thing about your hypothetical question is whether less than half a mil is enough to make such a movie and keep the spirit. The Watchmen was made by 2 very talented people, and that's about how many it takes to make a great graphic novel. To put in the same amount of production value that the graphic novel had into the movie would be a large undertaking. You need actors, a director, producer, camera crew, etc. Something like Watchmen made for less than half a million will look like an Ed Wood film. Terrible acting, terrible set design, terrible costumes, etc. How can a movie like that ever do the original Watchmen justice - even if the script is the best Watchmen script ever written? If you're making that movie, you're throwing away the best parts of filmmaking so why make it?
Sounds like my ex.
That's not a very good analogy because with the Picasso, there's only 1 in the world. There is no limit to how many XBox games or iPhone apps there could be in the world. There are iPhone games with PC equivalents where the PC app is much more expensive even if it has the same functionality. Was it any more difficult to make the PC equivalent then the iPhone app? No, but the value of iPhone games are seen as worth a couple bucks whereas the PC games are over $10.
After seeing indie games on bittorrent that cost 5 bucks if purchased I don't think your reasoning holds through. Some people will not purchase at any price, and will pirate it. Price is completely subjective and rarely dictates the quality of the product,, but the perception of quality. The iPhone App Store is a great representation of this. There are a lot of programs that are free, so people start to get the impression that all apps should be free. There are useful apps for $1 that some reviewers consider overpriced. You can't find an app on the app store, no matter the price, that some people will say is overpriced, when these are the same people who will go and buy a $60 game for their XBox, play it for less time than the iPhone app's usefulness, and not think anything of it. If games drop in price to, say, $20. People will find any higher variation of that price "overpriced" as their perception of the price of games now will be worth $20 instead of the $60 they're paying now.
I've never even heard of X3:Reunion or X3:Terran Conflict. If their DRM was so great, how did their sales go? Once they removed the DRM, you say it became piracy galore - there's a good argument that those pirates weren't going to buy the game to begin with, since they had ample opportunity to do so, and it was inconvenient/impossible for them to get the pirated version in the first place. Another quest is that since many more pirates played the first game once the DRM was gone, how did it affect sales of the second game?
How are companies buying into the DRM thing when every single DRM scheme has been cracked within days of release? Prince of Persia will probably be pirated at exactly the same rate as any other game, since every other game is on the torrent sites, DRM or not.